Sherwood Anderson: The Search for Salvation.

The simplest way of interpreting politician Sherwood Anderson from the sociological point of view is to see him as a sentimental rebel against industrialism. Industrialism was one of the factors that conspired to produce his own emotional climacteric. His entire attack on modern American capitalist culture is reminiscent of the William Morris socialism of two generations ago. Thus he evades the problem by seeing only one side of it-- for surely ugliness is only one and perhaps the least, of the symptoms of the sickness of an acquisitive society. But his evasion takes a more active form in his idealizing of the preindustrialist pioneer United States of America.